Zebulon's Guide to the planet Osaka

NOTE: WORK IN PROGRESS
Environmental Report
Osaka is a terrestrial world lacking significant bodies of navigatable water, Osaka is alternately gray and colorful. Its dominant ecosystem, the Osakaran Jungle is made up of fungal spires, tangle vines and oolon colonies. The fungal spires and other plants, depending on species and environmental factors range for dull grays to riotous splashes of garrish colors. Another major ecosystem is the fungal plains which cover the more temperate climes. The fungal plains are dominated by mat fungus which also alternates from dreary grays to garrish colors depending on fungi species and environmental factors.

Osakaran Jungle is a dense, gloomy, and near impenitrible jungle of tangler and strangler vines, fungal spires and oolon shoot colonies. Its believed to be the native environment where the osakar evolved. Sight lines are never more then a few meters and movement is slow and obstructed to all but the osakar themselves. Ground level in a osakaran jungle sees very little direct sunlight, hence the large eye structure of the osakar and yazirians can forego their sun goggles. All non osakaran races move at 1/2 if equipped with a machete and 1/4 if not and running is impossible.

The Fungal Plains cover the more temperate regions of the planet. They are dominated by matt fungi with stunted oolon shoot colonies and infrequent clumps of smaller fungal spires. The stolon stems of the dwarf oolon shoots dont grow more then a few cm in diameter and thus pose no significant impedement to travel. However, the deep, spongy mat fungi is an uncertain footing that can slow hourly movement rates by .5km per character. Tangle and strangler vines do not grow in this temperate region.

Osakaran Tundra covers thin bands on Osaka between the temperate fungal plains and the artic region on both the northern and southern hemispheres. Its primarily broken rocky ground with clumps of fungus, dwarf fungal spires and rare clumps of flowering plants.

Zoolonee Bogs are lakes, ponds and other former bodies of water that have become choked with the zoolonee plant/animal organism. They appear in any reagion and pose a significant danger to travellers. A zoolonee bog appears to be a weed choked body of water with a 2-12m ring of dry mulchlike material around it. Visitors to Osaka intending to travel in wilderness areas are strickly warned against the dangers of the zoolonee bog (see the Botanical/Zoological Report below).

Movement Table

RACE	Osakaran Jungle	Fungal Plains	Osakaran Tundra
Osakar	Normal Walk 1/2 Run Normal Hourly	Normal Walk Normal Run -1/2 km hourly	Normal Walk 3/4 Run Normal Hourly
All Others	1/2 Walk & Hourly w/machete 1/4 Walk & Hourly w/o machete No Run	Normal Walk Normal Run -1/2 km hourly	Normal Walk 1/2 Run Normal Hourly